Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri files nomination for Karnataka's Speaker post

Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri filed the nomination for the post of Karnataka Assembly Speaker on Tuesday. He was accompanied by Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa and other senior party leaders.

BJP MLA Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri files nomination for Karnataka's Speaker post

Published : Jul 30, 2019, 3:20 PM IST

Bengaluru: Karnataka BJP MLA Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri on Tuesday filed his nomination for the post of the Assembly Speaker.

Kageri, who represents the Sirsi constituency, was accompanied by Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa and other senior party leaders.

The six-time MLA and former Karnataka education minister is likely to get elected unopposed tomorrow.

Kageri will succeed K R Ramesh Kumar, who resigned shortly after the BJP won the trust motion in the Assembly on Monday.

He began his political career in the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad leader and was elected to the Assembly for the first time from the Ankola constituency in 1994, which he represented thrice till 2008.

After the delimitation of constituencies in Karnataka, he shifted to Sirsi and won from the seat in 2008, 2013 and 2018.

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Bengaluru: Karnataka BJP MLA Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri on Tuesday filed his nomination for the post of the Assembly Speaker.

Kageri, who represents the Sirsi constituency, was accompanied by Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa and other senior party leaders.

The six-time MLA and former Karnataka education minister is likely to get elected unopposed tomorrow.

Kageri will succeed K R Ramesh Kumar, who resigned shortly after the BJP won the trust motion in the Assembly on Monday.

After the delimitation of constituencies in Karnataka, he shifted to Sirsi and won from the seat in 2008, 2013 and 2018.

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Kageri all set to become Karnataka assembly speaker ? ?
Bengaluru, Jul 30 (PTI) Senior BJP MLA Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri is all set to become the next speaker of Karnataka assembly as he is the only candidate to file his
nomination papers for the post on Tuesday.
At expiry of the deadline at 12 noon, six-time MLA, Kageri was the only one to have filed the nomination papers for the post, which fell vacant after K R Ramesh Kumar quit on Monday.
"We received only one nomination that was of Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri," an official in the Karnataka assembly secretariat told PTI.
Chief minister B S Yediyurappa and BJP leaders Govind Karjol, R Ashok, Jagadish Shettar, K S Eshwarappa and S Suresh Kumar were present when Kageri submitted his nominations to the Karnataka Assembly secretary M K Vishalakshi.
Ramesh Kumar had resigned after a 14-month long tenure under the Congress-JDS coalition government on Monday after the three-day old B S Yediyurappa ministry won the vote of confidence in the assembly.
A Congress spokesperson said the party did not field any candidate because the BJP has the majority and it has been the convention of electing the speaker unopposed.
The JD(S) spokesperson too echoed the same views.
The election of Kageri would be formally announced when the Assembly meets on Wednesday, BJP sources said.
After being an active member of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, student wing of the Sangh Pariwar, Kageri climbed up the political ladder.
Kageri got elected to the Karnataka assembly from Ankola assembly seat in 1994 and since then there has been no looking back.
Kageri had also served as the minister for primary and secondary education. PTI GMS RA ROH
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Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri filed the nomination for the post of Karnataka Assembly Speaker on Tuesday. He was accompanied by Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa and other senior party leaders.

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